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Honduras Vs America Research Paper

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Did you know that not all teenagers in the world get the opportunity to go to school? In the United States, teenagers and even adults are so accustomed to school being required. They are unaware that it is not like that in all parts of the world. In third-world countries, like Honduras, teenagers do not get to go to school unless they are sponsored, because they cannot afford books, school supplies, school clothes, or shoes. It is not that these teenagers in Honduras choose not to go to school, but more of the fact that they do not have the money to attend school. Although there is a definite difference between high school students in the U.S. and in Honduras when it comes to school availability, students in the U.S. and students in Honduras …show more content…

In Honduras, however, the students choose to go to school. Honduran students not only desire to go to school, but then the student must find a sponsor who will pay for their schooling; this is an immense contrast to high school students in the United States. Students in the U.S. either go to a government owned school for free or their families pay for them to go to a private school. To make this point a little more clear, Good Samaritan Baptist Mission says, “School means buying books, a school uniform, shoes, and sometimes bus fare. They knew without an education, these children would grow up like their parents, illiterate and poor. Someday, if sickness did not cause their death, they would have only a hut to live in. Communist would make a bid for them because the communist use poverty to convert people to communism, promising them an easier life” (“History of the Opportunity of a Lifetime Program”). By the quote above alone, it is clear that without a sponsor students in Honduras will most likely spend the rest of their lives poor and working for communists in order to survive. If a high school student in America drops out at the age of 16, then he or she will either live off the government, find a lower paying job, or live off of his or her parents. Overall, high school students in the U.S. do not have the same desire Honduran students have when it comes to school. Honduran students do not complain about school daily like American students. The Honduran students are just happy that they even get to go to

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